Compulsory acquisition wrong: rights group

An Indigenous rights activist says the Federal Government's plan to compulsorily acquire Alice Springs town camps "flies in the face" of an agreement between the Government and the Indigenous Peoples Organisation.

Speaking from a United Nations conference in New York last night, South Australia's Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement chief executive, Neil Gillespie, says the forced acquisition of leases without informed consent is wrong.

He says the Government should reopen negotiations with the Tangentyere Council in Alice Springs as soon as possible.

"And we're strongly suggesting that the Australian Human Rights Commission act as a facilitator.

"So we're putting our hand up and saying, look, stop rushing through something and sit down and talk with the council in Alice Springs in the presence of the Australian Human Rights Commission."